World: South Korea put its troops on alert after North Korea claimed to have unilaterally cancelled the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. The North also shut down the Red Cross telephone hotline between the two countries used for …

National: The Dow Jones closed above 14,000 for the first time in five years on encouraging news about jobs and corporate earnings. A suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest killing a Turkish guard at the American Embassy in Ankara yesterday, …